AppleTalk - 238 Kilobits per second baseband network using CSMA/CD
ANSI - American National Standards Institute
API - Application Program Interface
Archie - Internet search tool
ATM - Asyncronous Transfer Mode
AUI - Attachment Unit Interface - connector originally used with thick Ethernet
BNC - connector used with thin/RG58 Ethernet and coaxial cable
BRI - Basic Rate Interface, referring to ISDN Line
CAP - Competitive Access Provider - i.e. TCG, ICG, Brooks Fibre, MFS etc.
CGI - Common Gateway Interface, referring to Web server software
CHAP - Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol - type of authentication used with ISDN, also see "PAP"
CIR - Committed Information Rate
CLEC - Competitive Local Exchange Carrier - i.e. TCG, ICG, Brooks Fibre, MFS etc.
CO - Central Office, refering to local carrier switch
CODEC - coder-decoder, a device that converts analog voice into digital and vice versa
CPE - Customer Premise Equipment
CPU - Central Processing Unit
CRC - Cyclical Redundancy Check
CSLIP - Compressed Serial Line Interface Protocol
CSU - Channel Service Unit
DNS - Domain Name Service
DSL - Digital Subscriber Line
DSU - Data Service Unit
DTE - Data Terminal Equipment
ECC - Error Checking Cache - used in all high end servers
EIDE - Enhanced Integrated Drive Electronics
EISA - Enhanced Industry Standard Architecture
E-MAIL - Electronic Mail
ESDI - Enhanced Small Device Interface
FAQs - Frequently Asked Questions
FDDI - Fiber-Optic Data Distribution Interface
Finger - application which allows user to see who is logged on to a network
FTP - File Transfer Protocol
GIF - Graphics Interchange Format
Gopher - Internet application used for ???
HDLC - High-Level Data Link Control
HSSI - High Speed Serial Interface
HTML - Hypertext Markup Language
HTTP - Hyper Text Transfer Protocol
IDE - Integrated Drive Electronics
IMAP - Interactive Mail Access Protocol (mail protocol not supported by Internex currently)
ICMP - Internet Control Message Protocol
IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
IPX - Internetork Packet eXchange used with Novell
IRC - Internet Relay Chat
ISA - Industry Standard Architecture - refers to original PC bus
ISDN - Integrated Services Digital Network
ISC - Internet Software Consortium
IXC - Inter Exchange Carrier - i.e. MCI, Sprint etc.
JPEG - Joint Photographic Experts Group
Kbps - kilobits per second
KBps - kilobytes per second
LAN - Local Area Network
LATA - Local Access and Transport Area -
LEC - Local Exchange Carrier - i.e. Pac Bell
LocalTalk - Name of Cable used for AppleTalk networks
MAU - Media Access Unit
Mbone - Multicast Backbone on the Internet
MIME - Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions
MPP - Multi Point Protocol
Multicast - an address for a selection of nodes in a network
MUX - Multiplexor - Equipment used by carrier, remotely configurable
NBP - Name Binding Protocol - AppleTalk protocol for translating device names to addresses
NDIS - Network Driver Interface Specification -
Net Beui - Netbios Extended User Interface
Netbios - Network Basic Input Output System
Netware - Novell operating system using IPX and SPXprotocols
NFS - Network File System
NIC - Network Interface Controller, Network Information Center
NIS - Network Information Service, for SunOS 4.x
NIS+ - Network Information Service, for SunOS 5.x
NOC - Network Operations Center
OSI - Open Sytems Interconnection
PAP - Password Authentication Protocol - used in ISDN - also see CHAP
PCI - P??? Control Interface - bus which works on PC's, Mac's, Sun's or any other computer platform
PING - Packet Internet Grouper
POP - Post Office Protocol or Point of Presence
PPP - Point to Point Protocol
PRI - Primary Rate Interface
PPTP - Point To Point Tunneling Protocol
PVC - Permanent Virtual Circuit
NNTP - Network News Transfer Protocol
NTP - Network Time Protocol (also see XNTP)
Rlogin - similar to telnet allowing user to log into a remote work station
SCSI - Small Computer System Interface
Signature file - ASCII text file maintained within email programs or in the /home/user/.signature file in UNIX
SLIP - Serial Line Interface Protocol
SMTP - Simple Mail Transport Protocol
SNMP - Simple Network Management Protocol
SNTP - Simple Network Time Protocol
Spam - refers to unsolicited mass email adds
SPID - Service Profile Identifier - used with ISDN
SPX - Sequential Packet eXchange - Novell's implementation of SPP (Sequential Packet Protocol)
TCP/IP - Transmission Control Protocol / Internet Protocol
TEI - Terminal Endpoint Identifier - With ISDN reffers to SPID number
Telnet - application which allows user to login to remote device
TID - Terminal Identifier
UDP - User Datagram Protocol
URL - Uniform Resource Locator
USB - Universal Serial Bus
Usenet - another name for Internet news groups
UTP - Unshielded Twisted Pair
Veronica - Internet search tool
VPN - Virtual Private Network
WAIS - Wide Area Information Servers
WAN - Wide Area Network
Web Browser - Internet application used to view websites
Whois - Internet application used for accessing Domain name information from the Internic
WWW - World Wide Web
XNTP - eXtended Network Time Protocol